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Philosophie der Landschaft Editor: Adam Jankowski/Robert Lettner/Burghart Schmidt GERMAN 240 Pages with approx. 300 Images Hardcover Dimensions: 23 x 30 cm Euro 42.00 sFr 70.50 ISBN 978-3-86859-138-5 Date of publication: October 2010  Sample Pages |
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Can landscape, in all its complexity, really be adequately
expressed linguistically and graphically? Is there such a thing
as a direct experience of landscape or is its perception heavily
influenced from the outset by cultural conventions and pre-
conceived notions? In an aesthetic research exercise
positioned between the fields of philosophy and art, the
painters Adam Jankowski and Robert Lettner together with the
cultural philosopher Burghart Schmidt attempt to find answers
to these questions.
While Burghart Schmidt, in his multifaceted essay, takes up
the question of a philosophy of landscape at the junction
between thought and art, the pictures of Jankowski and
Lettner, which consist of both individual and jointly done
works, allow landscape to merge with the reflection of its
presentation in the media. In their montages and âalienatedâ
works, the tradition of landscape painting is literally decoded
and put together anew. In doing so, the applied visual
technology itself is turned into a visual element. The interplay
between philosophical text and art opens up a range of new
perspectives on the infinity of landscape.
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